Peat Moss Plugs
This entry is partly to put my money where my mouth is, to take my own medicine; I’ve been busy sending seeds out, getting the seeds in the ground, but now that summer is officially here in five days, we’re coming around to where I need to get people blogging — so of course, I need to be doing it myself.
So — here is my second attempt — or shall we say, third attempt. The first attempt at seedlings were attacked by varmints of various kinds, and some have survived, so I grew some seedlings in a tray (but didn’t take pictures - doh!), and this was the second attempt — coming along, have some nice ones by the fence (see how pictures would be nice here?). Then for fun, since various folks in various parts are trying different techniques, I decided to have a backup to the backup — and am trying to see how things go using peat moss plugs — this may end up becoming the official recommendation for starting sunflowers.
At any rate, the peat moss plug tray comes with little discs of peat moss, you add water, and then the plastic tops helps to keep moisture in, and is an idea environment for sprouting things. In this case, I also soaked the sunflower seeds for 12 something hours in water the night prior — so the idea will be to see how soon the seeds will sprout.
And here is a close-up of the peat moss plugs:
I will probably end up pushing the seeds further down in the peat moss plug. Ah! with the other end of a pencil I guess.